ModelsAuditor

Installation

1. Add ModelsAuditor to your Gemfile

   gem 'models_auditor'

   Then execute $ bundle install

2. Add the gem settings to your project

   rails g models_auditor:install

   It added models_auditor initializer. Make necessary settings in this file.

3. Generate the audit database config

   rails g models_auditor:db_config

   It appended separate sections to config/database.yml. Edit them.

4. Create the audit database

   rake db:audit:create

5. Generate models_auditor migrations for audit_database

   rails g models_auditor:migrations

   Migration files will be putted into db/audit_migrate.

6. Apply migrations to the audit database

   rake db:audit:migrate

Usages

1. Mount the route for read logs json api

   Rails.application.routes.draw do
   
       mount ModelsAuditor::Engine => '/audit'
   
   end    
   

   To looking at routes list do

   $ rake routes

   models_auditor_requests GET  (/index)(/page/:page)(.:format) models_auditor/audit#index {:page=>/\d+/}
                      root GET  /                               models_auditor/audit#index
   

2. To enable audit you have to add into each logged models

   enable_audit ModelsAuditor::Audit::AUDIT_MODE_JSON

   AUDIT_MODE_JSON         - Serialization by #as_json
   AUDIT_MODE_SERIALIZER   - Serialization by using a ActiveModel Serializer, specifyied by :serializer option
   AUDIT_MODE_METHOD       - Serialization by a method, specifyied by :method option
   AUDIT_MODE_CHANGES_ONLY - Serialization ActiveRecord changes of model only
   

   class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
     enable_audit ModelsAuditor::Audit::AUDIT_MODE_JSON
   end
   

   class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
     enable_audit ModelsAuditor::Audit::AUDIT_MODE_JSON
   end
   

3. Add to each association models

   enable_audit ModelsAuditor::Audit::AUDIT_MODE_JSON, bridge: {author_id: Author.name, post_id: Post.name}

   class AuthorsPost < ActiveRecord::Base
     enable_audit ModelsAuditor::Audit::AUDIT_MODE_JSON, bridge: {author_id: Author.name, post_id: Post.name}
   end
   

Audit database management

Creation of the audit database

rake db:audit:create

Dropping of the audit database

rake db:audit:drop

Apply migrations to the audit database

rake db:audit:migrate

Rollback migrations to the audit database

rake db:audit:rollback

---

If you want to use a database prefix not from config. You may specify it as an argument in square brackets.

rake db:audit:create[audit_shmaudit]

Capistrano

Add line to the Capfile

require 'models_auditor/capistrano/rails/audit_migrations'

Migrate

The capistrano migrate task

cap deploy:audit_migrate

will be executed automatically after deploy:migrate cap task

Rollback

cap deploy:audit_rollback

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.